4. BUFO. 301 



the eye. Skin of upper surfaces nearly smooth ; parotoids de- 

 pressed, very large, extending to the sacral region ; a fold across 

 the occipital regiou. Uniform olive above ; whitish beneath, imma- 

 culate. Male with a subgular vocal sac. 

 Baluchistan. 



a. S . Dasht, Baluchistan. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



31. Bufo carens. 



Schismaderma carens, Giinth. Cat. p. 138. 

 Bufo carens, Smith, III. S. Afr., Bept. pi. 68. f. 1 ; Bouleng. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 567. 



vertebralis, Smith, I. c. f. 2. 



Schismaderma lateralis, Smith, I. c. App. p. 28. 



Crown without bony ridges ; suout short, truncated ; interorbital 

 space broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, 

 circular, as huge as the eye, close to the latter. First finger ex- 

 tending a little beyond second; toes half webbed; subarticular 

 tubercles simple ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; a tarsal fold. 

 The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso- 

 metatarsal articulation reaches the eye in males, the tympanum in 

 females. Upper parts with irregular, depressed, distinctly porous 

 warts, forming a glandular lateral fold ; parotoids indistinct. Above 

 olive, darker spotted ; beneath whitish, blackish-spotted. Male with 

 a subgular vocal sac. 



S. Africa. 



«-c, d-f. 3 $ . Natal. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (As 



typical of B. carens.) 



g-m. Yg. Cape of Good Hope. Sir' A. Smith [P.]. (As 



typical of B. vertebralis.) 



32. Bufo blanfordii. (Plate XIX. fig. 4.) 



Head rather large, without bony ridges ; snout short, rounded, 

 ■with indistinct eanthus rostralis ; interorbital space as broad as the 

 upper eyelid, flat; tympanum distinct, vertically oval, not quite half 

 the diameter of the eye. Fingers moderate, first extending very 

 slightly beyond second; toes moderate, half webbed, with simple 

 Bubarticular tubercles ; two small metatarsal tubercles ; a tarsal fold. 

 The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso- 

 metatarsal articulation reaches the centre of the eye in the female, 

 in front of the eye in the male. Skin covered with small warts; 

 parotoids none. Olive above, indistinctly marbled with darker; a 

 dark line from the tip of the snout, through the nostril to the eye ; 

 a few large spots on the sides of the head ; beneath immaculate. 

 Male with a subgular vocal sac. From snout to vent 43 millim. 



Abyssinia. -£/#?+* O^l^^L**^ L 



a-b. $>&hgr. AinSamhar. W. T. Blanford, Esq.. [P.]. 



c. <J. Sooroo. W.T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



